Diseases.
Brought forward
XVII.—Conditions Associated with Violence.—(Contd.)
Remaining in hospital at end of 1937.
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Appendix A.
Table I.
Appendix B.
Table II.
GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS.
Yearly total. Admissions. Deaths. Total Cases Treated. Remaining in hospital at end of 1938. 526 16,576 CHINESE HOSPITALS. Yearly total. Admissions. Deaths. Total Cases Treated. Remaining in hospital at end of 1938. Remaining in hospital at end of 1937. 1,563 17,102 740 1,503 48,605 13,631 173. Assault or homicide, by firearms 2 2 174. Assault or homicide, by cutting or piercing instruments 522 1 522 10 175. Assault or homicide, by other means 176. Attacks by venomous animals :- (a) Snake bite 206 2 206 8 (b) Insect bite 00-3 40 (c) Others 40 60 6 177. Food poisoning 60 3 153 7 178. Accidental absorption of irrespirable or poisonous gas 156 7 179. Other acute accidental poisoning 1 1 180. Injuries due to conflagration 181. Accidental burns :- (conflagration excepted)- (a) Burns by fire 1 4 1 (b) Scalds 2 2 (c) Burns by corrosive substances 1 1 (d) Dermatitis due to sun (e) Dermatitis due to exposure to other forms of radiation... 182. Accidental suffocation, mechanical 1 1 183. Accidental immersion or drowning 1 1 15 15 16 16 18 60 20 283 8 184. Accidental injury by firearms 48 8 48 10 65 126 191 185. Accidental injury by cutting or piercing instruments 12 74 8 86 10 44 47 186. Accidental injury by fall, crushing, etc. (This title includes all accidental deaths from injuries by falling, on railways, by vehicles, by machinery, by landslides, etc.). 69 2,332 142 2,401 8 23 239 427 30 Total carried forward 610 20,047 1,737 20,657 863 1,603 49,230 13,635 50,828 1,543